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From newsroom to silver screen

Former newspaper journalist and editor, Waldimar Pelser turned a television side hustle into his full-time gig as the director of M-Net and premium channels, a role which ...

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Stealthy U-boat war off East London coast — a little-known era ...

The waters off East London’s coast in the early 1940s were menaced by German submarines looking for Allied ships to sink. The Allies tactical ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Winter is here so just do it!

The sun rises cold and orange. The winter of our discord has finally begun. There is tragedy and there is art.

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DELORIS KOAN | When river souls and goals are real

Don’t do it! Do-o-o-n ... and he does it! There we were, battling an epic, wild Eastern Cape river in post-climate fury flood, approaching 4km and 70 years old, and my compadre, The Peril, stops swimming and sticks out his thumb. Well it’s more ...
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DELORIS KOAN | COL it what you want, this is home

I sleep in the cosmos. Not really, but sort-of — it’s a playlist I have made on the modern music slavery algorithm, Spotify. What have I put onto play that is making my lilac-tinted grey morning so evocative of the social storms I sense around ...
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DELORIS KOAN | Don’t be naar or Nardo: fluff up your soul and celebrate

The weather is bipolar today — a climate trend we knew was coming more than a decade ago — but the good news is that ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Keep running with our children on our shoulders, showing them a better ...

Out there it is dark. Lots of trumpeting and trampling. Our society is changing. I look for a sign. You know me, on ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Differences between ‘sleeping in’ and ‘sleeping on’

“Is there any mayonnaise?” This question, accompanied with incredulity — on all sides — was asked in the ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Parenting in the wilds is best investment

Family. Far from perfect. Often disastrous. Here in Nieu-Bethesda an investment matures. Not money — that is for ...

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DELORIS KOAN | I will never forget this good nature

“Please don’t mow the lawn near us from 2pm to 4pm. Our Cefani siesta tradition is 60 years old.” This is what I ...

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DELORIS KOAN | 'Surfers' is one of the greatest beach trail runs

Let's not deny it; society has entered an unhinged dimension. In the corner of our mind — or at the forefront, the ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Life, like a ship, is all about the b-a-a-ack and forth, b-a-a-ack and ...

Damn! I am doing it! Find myself leaning lakka into the 250m-long corner of Settlers Way heading out of town towards ...

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DELORIS KOAN | When reverie turns to revving

Reverie. It’s how my friend MC swims way out in the ocean. I admire her ability to dive within and roam peacefully ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Push back against techno-feudalism, support the feral cat women

“How about we close our eyes. A letter, an invitation, to come away. To start again.” Humane people will be tjanking ...

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Case family’s link with first-ever SA Grand Prix in East London

As South Africa begins the bidding to host a Formula One Grand Prix, Kyalami will inevitably feature as a ...

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DELORIS KOAN | LA ‘firenado’ hands out another climate change warning

Allrighty, so that is done then. Now that giant chunks of Los Angeles have become a raging inferno, the issue of ...

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DELORIS KOAN | We dads and hacks salute you, Lewis James!

A tree has fallen. An indigenous tree. The first and only reader of this column, Lewis James, has passed on to a ...

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It is a time of family and feasting for Tsolo’s Rode

He was the last man standing on the latest season of MasterChef SA and now Tsolo-born Lona Rode is gearing up to cook ...

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A slow-roast Christmas for the Roasted Dad

It’s going to be a slow roast kind Christmas for MasterChef SA 2022 winner Shawn Godfrey who is looking forward to ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Hot stone and cool Karoo waters

When you are sitting on an ellipse-shaped varnished bench in a kitchen wearing only your Oddballs underwear and your ...